A tyrannical mother was caught on camera kicking her young child in the head, apparently because she was having a tantrum.

The woman, seen at Shibuya train station in Tokyo on 1 March, drags her sobbing child from the floor to get her to walk behind her, but then suddenly spins around and slams her foot into her daughter’s head.

‘I’m filming you, I will call the police,’ says a man in Japanese.

The mother looks up when she hears the man, as her child crumples to the floor in a heap.

The monster mum roughly pulls the young girl back to her feet and walks away hurriedly.

The video, first posted on Reddit on Wednesday, is made all the more horrifying in that the woman did this to her child in a public place.